Rebecca Harding Davis

Life in the Iron-Mills

Novella depicting industrial labor, poverty, and moral struggle in iron mills

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Rebecca Harding Davis
Rebecca Harding Davis

Rebecca Harding Davis was a pioneer of American industrial fiction whose Life in the Iron-Mills gave voice to the suffering of mill workers years before the naturalist movement. She is one of the founding figures of American realism.

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